25/03/2026 - 27/03/2026    Bairo C em Guimarães

The 2nd International Conference on Design & Industry will be held in District C, in Guimarães from 25 to 27 March 2026. The call for papers in open until July 30th 2025

The 2026 edition embraces the theme “Design for Different Futures | Learning with Nature,” reinforcing the need to integrate nature’s intelligence into design and industry. DESIGN COMMIT 2026 cultivates an ecosystem where innovation and sustainability are not opposing forces but interconnected drivers of progress. By exploring cutting-edge materials, AI-driven design, and regenerative systems, we seek to reimagine the future of design and industry—one where creativity, responsibility, and resilience shape a world in harmony with nature.

For more information visit the website at https://designcommit.pt/call-for-papers/

25/03/2026 - 27/03/2026    Bairo C em Guimarães

The 2nd International Conference on Design & Industry will be held in District C, in Guimarães from 25 to 27 March 2026. The call for papers in open until July 30th 2025

The 2026 edition embraces the theme “Design for Different Futures | Learning with Nature,” reinforcing the need to integrate nature’s intelligence into design and industry. DESIGN COMMIT 2026 cultivates an ecosystem where innovation and sustainability are not opposing forces but interconnected drivers of progress. By exploring cutting-edge materials, AI-driven design, and regenerative systems, we seek to reimagine the future of design and industry—one where creativity, responsibility, and resilience shape a world in harmony with nature.

For more information visit the website at https://designcommit.pt/call-for-papers/

Friday, 05/12/2025    EAAD - Campus de Azurém - auditório 1

The School of Architecture, Art and Design (EAAD) announces the Doctoral Examinations in Architecture, specialising in City and Territory, requested by Master Teresa Filipa de Assis Caldeira Cruz Corais, to be held on 5 December 2025, at 2:30 p.m., in auditorium 1, building 9 (EAAD), on the Azurém Campus of UMinho.

Filipa Corais will defend her thesis entitled ‘The City “Walking” towards 2050. Braga as a Laboratory for a Resilient and Sustainable Urban System’.

Jury
- Paulo Jorge de Sousa Cruz, Full Professor and President of the Scientific Council of EAAD, who presides;
- Teresa Manuel de Almeida Cálix Augusto, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto;
- Frederico Amado de Moura e Sá, Assistant Professor at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro;
- Miguel Sopas Melo Bandeira, Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Institute of Education at the University of Minho;
- André Moura Leitão Cerejeira Fontes, Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the University of Minho.

Wednesday, 03/12/2025    EAAD - Campus de Azurém - BPB

A round table discussion on the theme ‘Seeing through Drawing: the most distinguished wisdom, by Vítor Murtinho’ will take place on 3 December at 4 pm at the Nuno Portas Library.

In memory of Prof. Dr. Vítor Murtinho (1964-2025) and with reference to his recently published book, ‘The Most Distinct Wisdom - The representation of place in the Renaissance,’ the Nuno Portas Library brings together a group of professors from the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho for a conversation in which they will address some aspects of the evolution of perspective drawing and geometry in architectural thought, particularly in the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries, in connection with the book and work of Dr. Vítor Murtinho.

Tuesday, 02/12/2025    Galeria da Garagem Avenida - Guimarães

On 2 December, starting at 10:30 a.m., the Galeria da Garagem Avenida will host an open class entitled ‘Beyond the skin: an interspecies approach to a life as a cyborg,’ led by artist Henrique Palmeirim Lázaro.

Biography | Henrique Palmeirim Lázaro (b. Lisbon 1995) graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London as a Gulbenkian scholarship holder. He is, above all, an artist and creative technologist - although currently an exhibition designer at arebyte. He is also a carpenter, painter, sculptor, CNC and 3D printing operator, digital modeller, programmer, VJ, game designer, writer, among other roles that support his work and artistic practice. In his studio, he orbits epistemological themes in opposition to the norms established by the legacy of the Enlightenment. His artistic work celebrates a fluidity of bodies, species and beliefs, playing with their meanings or lack thereof.

“In this session, we reflect on different forms of immersion, distinguishing between environments that merely surround the audience and those that actually respond to their presence. We talk about how immersion can go beyond the sensory effect to become relationship, co-presence and implication – being inside, not just in front. We explored the difference between looking at art and art looking back: situations in which the audience ceases to be mere observers and becomes part of the event itself, participating in a shared ecology where each presence matters."